The Platform empowers African institutions to deliver on the potential of emerging health technologies to transform health trajectory in Africa. Our advocacy work is aimed at: increasing understanding, commitment and action by policymakers to facilitate the development and use of emerging tools and technologies for tackling health challenges at national and regional levels in Africa, and increasing voices and engagement of African scientists and ethicists, media, and CSOs in discourses to promote development and use of these technologies in Africa at national, regional and global levels.
The platform conducts its advocacy and communication through policy dialogues and workshops, advocacy products and building capacity of African institutions on advocacy and communications.
The Platform convenes policy dialogues targeting African and global players on issues surrounding the development, testing and deployment of our target emerging health technologies in Africa. These dialogues also serve to promote uptake of evidence-based research, and strengthen advocacy capacity of African institutions in promoting discourses and actions on the development, testing and deployment of emerging technologies for tackling health challenges in Africa.
Our policy dialogues cover issues relating to policy and regulatory frameworks and capacity on the development, testing and use of emerging health technologies.
Health Tech Platform works to strengthen advocacy capacity of African Institutions in promoting discourses and actions on the development and use of emerging technologies for tackling health challenges in Africa. We aim to ensure African institutions are able to spearhead effective advocacy that promote government actions towards facilitating the development of these technologies.
Champion Building
Through engagements with national and regional platforms and networks of scientists, ethicists and innovators, the Platform identifies champions for emerging health technologies. The platform nurtures and facilitates campions to engage in advocacy activities at country level, at regional and global levels to ensure the technology considers the needs, interests, contexts and concerns of Africans, particularly women and youth and to increase the interest of key stakeholders and the public in the ongoing development of emerging health technologies.
Media training
Health Tech Platform engages the media both at national and regional levels through journalist networks at national and regional levels, as well as with individual science/health journalists with the aim of to equipping them to undertake balanced and objective reporting on emerging health technologies and on the basis of evidence.
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We synthesize and translate evidence on emerging health technologies and package them into usable advocacy products:
Advocacy products
Our advocacy products include briefs, infographics, videos, media toolkits, photo-stories, pod-casts, blog series, e-newsletters, and webinar series. Browse our advocacy products.
Interactive and dynamic website
The Health Tech Platform Website serves as a dynamic digital platform for emerging health tools and technologies in Africa and a repository/portal for the evidence products, as well as other important documents related to the target emerging health technologies, including African government policies or regulatory framework, and emerging evidence on these technologies.
Social media campaigns
We employ our social media channels to facilitate sustained engagement and discussions globally, regionally and nationally. We identify and work with emerging health technologies experts, champions and online influencers to expand conversations and debates on their role in addressing health challenges and propelling Africa’s development agenda. We use interactive activities such as knowledge quizzes, polls and debates.
